British India: Consequences of the Rebellion (Urban design)

Question 1

What was significant about Lucknow?

Answer 1

Site of some of the bloodiest fighting during the mutiny

Question 2

What was site of the most bloodiest fighting during the mutiny?

Answer 2

Lucknow

Question 3

Under whose command was Lucknow reshaped to fit the needs of a British ruling elite paranoid about further rebellion?

Answer 3

Robert Napier

Question 4

Under Robert Napier, why did he reshape Lucknow?

Answer 4

Reshaped to fit the needs of the paranoid British ruling elite, who were scared of further rebellion

Question 5

What fraction of Lucknow was destroyed under Napier?

Answer 5

2/5

Question 6

What happened to 2/5 of Lucknow?

Answer 6

Destroyed under Napier

Question 7

What was built in Lucknow after the destruction of 40% of the city?

Answer 7

Straight wide boulevards to facilitate the movement of troops in the event of the rebellion, imposing railway with long platform to allow reinforcements to be unloaded quickly and a massive network of military cantonments

Question 8

Why were straight, wide boulevards built in Lucknow?

Answer 8

Facilitate the movement of troops in the event of rebellion

Question 9

What was built in Lucknow that would facilitate the movement of troops in the event of another rebellion?

Answer 9

Straight, wide boulevards

Question 10

Why were railways with long platforms built?

Answer 10

Allow reinforcements to be unloaded quickly

Question 11

What enabled reinforcements to be unloaded quickly?

Answer 11

Railway stations with long platforms

Question 12

What was built outside the city’s limits?

Answer 12

Massive network of military cantonments

Question 13

What happened to the population of Lucknow whilst the changes were being made?

Answer 13

Expelled from households

Question 14

Who was expelled from their households during the work of Lucknow?

Answer 14

The population

Question 15

When could the population of Lucknow, who were expelled due to the changes, allowed to come back?

Answer 15

Until they had paid their tax- covering the cost of rebuilding

Question 16

Why did the population of Lucknow have to pay a tax covering the cost of rebuilding Lucknow?

Answer 16

In order to return back to their households that they were expelled from

Question 17

What did Robert Napier, brigadier in the Bengal Engineers, observe in his March 1858 “Memorandum on the Military occupation of the City of Lucknow?”

Answer 17

‘The city of Lucknow, from its vast extent, and from the absence of any very prominent features of the ground on which it stands must always remain difficult to control except by a large body of troops’

Question 18

Who said ‘The city of Lucknow, from its vast extent, and from the absence of any very prominent features of the ground on which it stands must always remain difficult to control except by a large body of troops’

Answer 18

Robert Napier in his “Memorandum on the Military occupation of the City of Lucknow” (March 1858)

Question 19

What did Napier convert the principal mosque into?

Answer 19

Turned it into temporary barracks

Question 20

The temporary barracks, what was previously the use of the building?

Answer 20

Principal mosque

Question 21

What were the feature of the Machhi Bhagwan fort?

Answer 21

Commanding view of the city’s main two bridges
Centre of the new city
600 yard wide square cleared from in front of the force which was used as wide, straight roads

Question 22

What was built in every major Indian city?

Answer 22

Main garrison was placed in built-up area in a ‘cantonment’ from which soldiers could emerge to crush any rebellions to British rule

Question 23

Within the cantonment, where were the officers housed?

Answer 23

In their own bungalow which had a garden (size according to rank)

Question 24

What did the troops have in close proximity?

Answer 24

Brick barracks

Question 25

Where did native troops live?

Answer 25

Further away in thatched huts they were expected to build for themselves

Question 26

What were the features of the Lucknow railway?

Answer 26

Designed with the aim of preserving of order
Building was structured like a fortress
Long platforms for easy transportation of reinforcements

Question 27

Outside the broad roads, what was ensured?

Answer 27

Clear fields of fire